Saban's Power Rangers
Lionsgate | Release Date: March 24, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
15
Negative:
7
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Time OutDanny YuMar 24, 2017
Even if you have mixed feelings about the new suits and other shortcomings, Power Rangers will leave fans feeling sentimental. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaMar 27, 2017
It’s bright and fun and doesn’t look like any climactic fight of a superhero movie in recent memory. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweMar 20, 2017
Israelite, building on his experience with teen sci-fi feature Project Almanac, orchestrates a vastly more complex array of characters, action set pieces and technical resources for a combined effect that maintains dramatic tension even while teetering on the brink of excess. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyMar 22, 2017
Most movies like Power Rangers get the first-half Y.A. character stuff wrong and the second-half smashy-smashy action stuff right. This one does just the reverse. Read full review
66
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeMar 20, 2017
Power Rangers is baloney through and through, but as baloney goes, it’s better than you might expect. It packs enough zing to make you forgive the origin-story clichés. And the predictable save-the-world stuff. And the insanely ubiquitous product placement. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneKatie WalshMar 24, 2017
Power Rangers maintains the essence of its origins in that it's rather pleasantly bonkers. Read full review
63
The Seattle TimesKatie WalshMar 23, 2017
Power Rangers maintains the essence of its origins in that it’s rather pleasantly bonkers. It errs on the side of goofy rather than gritty, and that’s to its favor. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzMar 23, 2017
Loud, trashy, sweet and weird, the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers reboot Power Rangers is not merely an ideal film for rambunctious and undemanding 12-year olds, it actually sees the world through their eyes. Read full review
60
ScreenCrushE. Oliver WhitneyMar 23, 2017
Power Rangers is fun when it leans into the original series’ campy sensibility. Read full review
58
ConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerMar 23, 2017
Power Rangers ably sates all appetites: it’s absurd enough to avoid the self-seriousness that threatens to swallow it throughout, but just straight-faced enough to stop short of the kind of referential irony that would sink it. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyMar 23, 2017
When it comes time to morph and break out the Zords to the sound of “Go, Go, Power Rangers,” the film groans and shuffles, like a sulky teen who’s been told that they have to finish the dishes before they can borrow the minivan. Read full review
58
The PlaylistWill AshtonMar 23, 2017
Never quite fun enough for kids or teens, but also unlikely to appeal to loyal fans, Power Rangers feels like a film that’s not quite finished morphing into its true form. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenMar 29, 2017
A reasonably enjoyable, if utterly predictable, romp. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzMar 23, 2017
At its best Power Rangers plays a little like a low-rent “Breakfast Club.” Unfortunately it’s not always at its best, and when it’s not, you get exactly what you’d expect: generic teen hero fare. Read full review
50
We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoMar 23, 2017
Power Rangers doesn't completely fail as an origin story, but it's too familiar with its new-age reboot mentality that repurposes instead of recreates. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperMar 22, 2017
There’s an admirable commitment to absurdity, yet it belies the thoughtful coming-of-age journey for the five teens up until they hit “morphin time.” Read full review
50
USA TodayBrian TruittMar 20, 2017
The last half hour is filled with cheeseball visual effects, B-movie monsters and Banks — by far the most enjoyable aspect — hamming it up the best she can. Read full review
50
VarietyOwen GleibermanMar 20, 2017
We’re now so awash in superhero culture that kids no longer need the safe, lame, pandering junior-league version of it. They can just watch “Ant-Man” or the PG-13 “Suicide Squad.” Safe, lame, and pandering have all grown up. Read full review
42
IndieWireDavid EhrlichMar 20, 2017
For all of its surprising relevance, Power Rangers feels hopelessly lost in time. There is an audience for this movie, but this movie has no idea who that audience might be. Read full review
40
Total FilmMatt MaytumMar 27, 2017
A handful of sparky leads can’t help this superhero reboot find an appropriate tone. No no, Power Rangers. Read full review
40
EmpireJonathan PileMar 23, 2017
There is fun to be had.... But it essentially feels like an overlong, mega-budgeted episode of a Saturday-morning serial. Read full review
40
The New York TimesAndy WebsterMar 23, 2017
When the Rangers engage in “Transformers”-lite mayhem, an intriguing group portrait collapses into generic pyrotechnics. Read full review
40
The GuardianMike McCahillMar 21, 2017
The film achieves a functioning mediocrity we perhaps might have thought beyond this franchise, offering a modicum of diversion in return for the cash disappeared from your wallet. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreMar 24, 2017
The players, attractive as they are, register more as “types” filling out an EEO chart than distinct people, save for the first three introduced. The dialogue devolves into variations of “I got this.” Read full review
38
Slant MagazineKeith WatsonMar 23, 2017
Power Rangers is so concerned with launching a mature teen-targeted franchise that it often forgets to have some fun. Read full review
38
Boston GlobePeter KeoughMar 23, 2017
Power Rangers might be the only movie that directly pays homage to “Transformers.” Sadly, it suffers by the comparison. Read full review
30
Screen DailyTim GriersonMar 20, 2017
A teen group therapy session disguised as a superhero movie, Power Rangers is numbingly predictable and cynically made, recycling myriad blockbuster tropes but draining their adolescent pleasures in the process. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzMar 23, 2017
A work of soulless indifference. It is not so much a movie as an exercise in how to wring the life out of even the most lifeless of properties – grave robbing writ large, except the ostensible corpse was never more than a worthless bag of bones in the first place. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangMar 23, 2017
I feel more qualified than usual to announce that Saban’s Power Rangers (Saban clearly never learned to share) is a witless and cobbled-together pile of junk, and I mean that not as an insult so much as an assurance of brand integrity. Read full review
20
The TelegraphRobbie CollinMar 22, 2017
The ugly and incomprehensible big finish we get appears to have been shot by the Hunchback of Notre Dame and edited by a monkey wearing oven gloves, and if there’s a single clear shot of the Dinozords in action in there, I must have missed it. Read full review
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